Bug#377931: apt-get update no longer downloads Packages.bz2

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:57:15PM -0700, Adrian Yee wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Version: 0.6.44.2
>> Severity: important
>
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>  
>> The bzip2 1.0.3-3 package removes the /usr/bin/bzip2 symlink (bug
>> #375285) and apt-get only checks for /usr/bin/bzip2 (not /bin/bzip2)
>> before it downloads Packages.bz2.  As a result, repositories such as the
>> vdlinux one fail to update since a Packages.gz does not exist.
> [..]
>
> I changed this to /bin/bzip2 now, that should fix the issue. It is in
> bzr now and will be part of the next upload.
>
> Cheers,
>  Michael

Won't that break with older bzip2 that aren't in /bin? Can't you check
if it is in PATH instead?

MfG
        Goswin